Michael Snyder

The people who brought you “The Great Swine Flu Scare Of 2009” now want to bring you “The Great Global Health Tax Of 2010”. The World Health Organization is actually considering a plan to ask governments all over the globe to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online. (Read More...)

How in the world can a rational group of human beings put together a piece of legislation this bad? The more that we learn about the health care reform bill, the more horrific it gets. This bill gives the U.S. government not only unprecedented control over our health care, but also unprecedented control over the most intimate details of our lives as well. While some are trumpeting this bill as the “government takeover of health care”, the reality is that is only a small part of the story. The truth is that the health care reform bill represents a move by the U.S. government to literally take over our entire lives. (Read More...)

The 2010 elections are quickly becoming the most anticipated mid-term elections in modern American history. A little over a year ago, the American people gave the Democrats control of the House, the Senate and the White House. But now public opinion has swung dramatically against the Democrats. (Read More...)

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”
-Benjamin Franklin

It is now official. A majority of Americans are willing to give up liberty in order to be safer from terrorism. A stunning new McClatchy-Ipsos poll has found that 51 percent of Americans agree with this statement: “it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism.” (Read More...)

Under the health care reform bill that the Democrats are cramming down the throats of the American people, will all Americans be required to purchase health insurance? No. It turns out that there is a “religious conscience” exemption in the health care reform bill that will enable the Amish, as well as a number of other religious groups, to opt out of the mandate to purchase health insurance. So will the rest of us be able to get in on this action? (Read More...)

The Obama administration has decided that Barack Obama can break any law he signs if Obama decides that the law in not constitutional and that he can do this whenever he wants and that he does not even have to tell anyone what he is doing. Seriously. At least George W. Bush informed that American people that he intended to break the laws that he was signing by including a “signing statement” when he objected to something in a bill. As bad and as unconstitutional as that was, now the Obama administration is taking things to a whole new level by saying that even if Barack Obama signs a bill into law, the Obama administration can still break any law in that bill if the Obama administration decides that it is an “unconstitutional” limit on Obama’s power. (Read More...)

As absolutely brutal winter weather hammers the United States, Europe and Asia, many people are wondering where all of that “global warming” is supposed to be. After all, if climate change is about to cause absolute devastation to the earth, shouldn’t we all at least be able to enjoy some mild winters in the meanwhile? The truth is that this winter is making an absolute mockery out of the climate change crowd. It simply does not make sense that the earth is massively heating up when we are experiencing record cold temperatures and record-setting snow storms all over the globe. (Read More...)

What a first year! In the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election, the political scene in the United States was anything but boring. In fact, efforts by the Obama administration to move America towards socialism and to integrate us into emerging world political structures has created a conservative backlash unlike anything ever seen in modern times. Health care “reform”, global warming and the ongoing world economic collapse all made huge headlines this year. With Congressional elections looming in 2010, next year also promises to be an incredibly interesting year. The truth is that the American people are becoming increasingly fractured and divided. There are those who completely support Barack Obama’s march towards socialism, but there are many others who recognize that Barack Obama’s policies are destroying what remains of this once great constitutional republic. How this plays out on the field of American politics in 2010 will be fascinating to watch. (Read More...)

The attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 by an Islamic terrorist affiliated with a terror group based in Yemen has many wondering if the next U.S. war will be in that nation. Well, the truth is that the United States is already at war in Yemen – it’s just that you did not know about it yet. In fact, the U.S. has been conducting military operations in Yemen for quite some time. But now this latest terror incident has hawkish politicians such as Senator Joe Lieberman calling for even more direct U.S. military action. So is Yemen about to become the next Afghanistan? (Read More...)

Most Americans who support the health care reform bills currently being rammed through Congress believe that this process will result in Americans receiving universal health care that is cheaper, more efficient and that gives all of us more choices. But that is not the case at all. Rather, Americans will soon have much fewer health choices which are much less efficient and for which they will end up paying much more for. In fact, there are a ton of really nasty surprises for the American people in the health care reform bill. The following are 10 of the nastiest of the surprises…. (Read More...)

Remember the days when Americans could freely contract with private health insurers for whatever level of health coverage that they wanted for themselves and their families? Those days are over. In the health care bill being rammed through the U.S. Senate, Americans are given 4 health care plan templates from which they must choose and 2 places from which they can get that coverage (either their workplace or from a state-based “insurance exchange”). You see, this is the new socialist America – where health care choices are limited and where conformity is required. (Read More...)